Hello Douglas Today is the 28th December, and Christmas is over. Christmas Day was great. My brother bought my dad a giant television 55 inches. It’s like sitting in front of the cinema. We watched Shawshank Redemption, it took some doing as my Dad (86) is addicted to sports and quiz shows, he is VERY territorial about the remote control!. He got in a really bad mood setting it up, took him hours! I am no good at that sort of thing. Anyway, I was in the kitchen cooking every vegetable known to man and a roast chicken. We are not turkey fans here. Regarding beaches in Florida. Not for me. I couldn’t lie out in the sun for money, it’s boring, and you can’t read properly. If I were to visit the states again it would be to see interesting stuff like the Smithsonian and Metropolitan Museum of Modern art. Also Louisiana, New Orleans, I want to see a really big redwood tree, and the Grand Canyon, that sort of stuff. Can’t do any climbing so mountains are out. I actually trekked to base camp at Everest in 1998, when I was fit. The travelling I did, I used to do any lousy job I could then save save save then travel. Doing cleaning jobs, waitressing anything really. Was never a career person. English sport is bollocks, soccer, cricket. Rugby is okay. I like watching US Basketball it has never taken off here, they tried to launch it several times but the British public weren’t buying. One thing I don’t understand about basketball is that you have these freakishly tall men, on this tiny court with a basket they can easily reach. Why don’t they make the court bigger, and the basket higher so a degree of difficulty is added to the game? I watch the odd baseball game. Modern baseball is too monetised to be interesting, old time baseball was better. I like the Seattle Seahawks because they signed Shaquem Griffin he lost his hand, but he can still catch a ball, he is incredible. We used to be Eagles fans, but we aren’t loyal!!! I’m reading The Hero with a thousand faces, by Joseph Campbell. He’s a yank like you. Really smart guy, links religion to mythology and makes some interesting observations about as as modern people. Well Tekashi did well, only has to serve another 12 months before he is free. I think he is probably safer in jail. Would he be in general population? Part 1 of 2.
My love Sunday night - nearly midnight...I remember we would be downtown, just hanging out...walking around aimlessly - mostly looking for trouble - lol. Do you recall the ‘dairies’ out in West Sac - we’d bring home sandwich stuff and chips and cookies for Cella and the little boys....funny how I don’t remember Linda being there, but she must have been - she was only about 12 or 13 then. Guess that’s what happens when we get old - selective memories. I choose to remember (and romanticize) those times. You’re right - we were - are - crazy...we could have had it all - but instead we threw it away - multiple times....we are so lucky to have this last chance. Safe - yes - you always made me feel safe...even when we argued, I knew that you’d never touch me violently - and that you’d die before you let anything hurt me. I’ve always had a hang up about being safe and secure - so odd when you think about how fearless I acted - lol I love you. Always and forever....I know you won’t get this until way after Christmas, but Merry Christmas anyway. I’ll mail your card this week... Love - always and all ways Your Jeannie
I just watched Your story on the Netflix series: I am a killer and although You did kill Darren, I don't feel You deserved death, as like You said, the hospital killed Denise, so good luck and I hope you one day get offered a chance to come off death row and have a chance to get your sentence reduced to a life sentence! Peace out and God bless You My brother! Love your long distance brother from England: Kye
Hello Douglas. I find as I get older I become far more introverted and taciturn I can't talk for talking sake. I recently fell out with an ex friend who drive me absolutely mad with her incessant gossiping and inane chat. Any kind of pause in conversation would induce her to babble a way, she drove me crazy. She was quite a compassionless toxic person, she seriously crossed a line with me a few months back and I struck out, verbally, I;m usually a doormat, so that was that, so we don’t have to put up with her this Christmas, which sounds heartless, but, boy, If you met her!! Conversely, I do enjoy earwigging other peoples conversations. People talk loudly on their phones in public, in the Mall, or in the street, and sometime have the most inappropriate conversations out loud. I’ve actually burst out laughing listening to someone’s ‘private’ conversation, and got a dark look back off them! Is the row a quiet place. I often read that jail is quite noisy, night and day, and they say that the row is the safest place to be in jail, because people don’t have anything to prove or prove in people? Speaking as someone who doesn't like spending time in their own head (I don't meditiate) I think that solitary confinement would send me insane quite quickly. There is a book I recently read produced in the USA with accompanying DVD called In the timeless time. It was written in 1979 when Texas stopped executions for a decade. And on this particular row documentaries logged the conversation and behaviour of the inmstes. In such a stultifying regime the inmates got quite creative and sneaky! Some of the guards were just a nightmare, a lot of power plays which was sad. But some were briliisnt, trying to make the best of a bad environment. Among the blogs here and on other innate contact t sites, when I have looked into what the guy actually done to get jailed sometimes I am absolutely appalled by their actions. There are some horrors of humanity there and I am glad they have walls around them and they will forever be removed from the world. There is a price to be paid for a bad start in life, and the people who should pay it never do. The mental strain on people living in the row is beyond my comprehension, there is a great strength to live carrying remorse. And with the weight of a sentence . Thing with preachers and all those sort of people they never truly understand the implications of making the wrong choice of doing something because it's easy. They have the Bible or Talmud or Koran and refer back to that, but life doesn't happen between the paragraphs or sentences of a page in a book, it happens between heartbeats. You sound strong to me, and in control of yourself and observant of others. Things may get lost in translation sometimes, but we breathe the same air. Happy New year T
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Today is the 28th December, and Christmas is over. Christmas Day was great. My brother bought my dad a giant television 55 inches. It’s like sitting in front of the cinema. We watched Shawshank Redemption, it took some doing as my Dad (86) is addicted to sports and quiz shows, he is VERY territorial about the remote control!. He got in a really bad mood setting it up, took him hours! I am no good at that sort of thing. Anyway, I was in the kitchen cooking every vegetable known to man and a roast chicken. We are not turkey fans here. Regarding beaches in Florida. Not for me. I couldn’t lie out in the sun for money, it’s boring, and you can’t read properly. If I were to visit the states again it would be to see interesting stuff like the Smithsonian and Metropolitan Museum of Modern art. Also Louisiana, New Orleans, I want to see a really big redwood tree, and the Grand Canyon, that sort of stuff. Can’t do any climbing so mountains are out. I actually trekked to base camp at Everest in 1998, when I was fit. The travelling I did, I used to do any lousy job I could then save save save then travel. Doing cleaning jobs, waitressing anything really. Was never a career person. English sport is bollocks, soccer, cricket. Rugby is okay. I like watching US Basketball it has never taken off here, they tried to launch it several times but the British public weren’t buying. One thing I don’t understand about basketball is that you have these freakishly tall men, on this tiny court with a basket they can easily reach. Why don’t they make the court bigger, and the basket higher so a degree of difficulty is added to the game? I watch the odd baseball game. Modern baseball is too monetised to be interesting, old time baseball was better. I like the Seattle Seahawks because they signed Shaquem Griffin he lost his hand, but he can still catch a ball, he is incredible. We used to be Eagles fans, but we aren’t loyal!!! I’m reading The Hero with a thousand faces, by Joseph Campbell. He’s a yank like you. Really smart guy, links religion to mythology and makes some interesting observations about as as modern people. Well Tekashi did well, only has to serve another 12 months before he is free. I think he is probably safer in jail. Would he be in general population?
Part 1 of 2.
Sunday night - nearly midnight...I remember we would be downtown, just hanging out...walking around aimlessly - mostly looking for trouble - lol.
Do you recall the ‘dairies’ out in West Sac - we’d bring home sandwich stuff and chips and cookies for Cella and the little boys....funny how I don’t remember Linda being there, but she must have been - she was only about 12 or 13 then.
Guess that’s what happens when we get old - selective memories. I choose to remember (and romanticize) those times.
You’re right - we were - are - crazy...we could have had it all - but instead we threw it away - multiple times....we are so lucky to have this last chance.
Safe - yes - you always made me feel safe...even when we argued, I knew that you’d never touch me violently - and that you’d die before you let anything hurt me. I’ve always had a hang up about being safe and secure - so odd when you think about how fearless I acted - lol
I love you. Always and forever....I know you won’t get this until way after Christmas, but Merry Christmas anyway. I’ll mail your card this week...
Love - always and all ways
Your Jeannie
Peace out and God bless You My brother!
Love your long distance brother from England: Kye
I find as I get older I become far more introverted and taciturn I can't talk for talking sake. I recently fell out with an ex friend who drive me absolutely mad with her incessant gossiping and inane chat. Any kind of pause in conversation would induce her to babble a way, she drove me crazy. She was quite a compassionless toxic person, she seriously crossed a line with me a few months back and I struck out, verbally, I;m usually a doormat, so that was that, so we don’t have to put up with her this Christmas, which sounds heartless, but, boy, If you met her!! Conversely, I do enjoy earwigging other peoples conversations. People talk loudly on their phones in public, in the Mall, or in the street, and sometime have the most inappropriate conversations out loud. I’ve actually burst out laughing listening to someone’s ‘private’ conversation, and got a dark look back off them!
Is the row a quiet place. I often read that jail is quite noisy, night and day, and they say that the row is the safest place to be in jail, because people don’t have anything to prove or prove in people? Speaking as someone who doesn't like spending time in their own head (I don't meditiate) I think that solitary confinement would send me insane quite quickly. There is a book I recently read produced in the USA with accompanying DVD called In the timeless time. It was written in 1979 when Texas stopped executions for a decade. And on this particular row documentaries logged the conversation and behaviour of the inmstes. In such a stultifying regime the inmates got quite creative and sneaky! Some of the guards were just a nightmare, a lot of power plays which was sad. But some were briliisnt, trying to make the best of a bad environment.
Among the blogs here and on other innate contact t sites, when I have looked into what the guy actually done to get jailed sometimes I am absolutely appalled by their actions. There are some horrors of humanity there and I am glad they have walls around them and they will forever be removed from the world. There is a price to be paid for a bad start in life, and the people who should pay it never do. The mental strain on people living in the row is beyond my comprehension, there is a great strength to live carrying remorse. And with the weight of a sentence .
Thing with preachers and all those sort of people they never truly understand the implications of making the wrong choice of doing something because it's easy. They have the Bible or Talmud or Koran and refer back to that, but life doesn't happen between the paragraphs or sentences of a page in a book, it happens between heartbeats. You sound strong to me, and in control of yourself and observant of others. Things may get lost in translation sometimes, but we breathe the same air.
Happy New year
T